Walter T. Colquitt

Walter Terry Colquitt (27 December 1799-7 May 1855) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-GA) from 4 March 1839 to 21 July 1840 (succeeding Jabez Y. Jackson and preceding Hines Holt) and from 3 January 1842 to 3 March 1843 (succeeding Eugenius A. Nisbet and preceding John H. Lumpkin), and a US Senator from 4 March 1843 to 4 February 1848 (succeeding Alfred Cuthbert and preceding Herschel Vespasian Johnson).

Biography
Walter Terry Colquitt was born in Halifax County, Virginia in 1799, and he moved to Mount Zion, Carroll County, Georgia with his parents. He became a lawyer in 1820, and he also became a Brigadier-General of the state militia at the age of 21. In 1827, he became an extremely popular Methodist preacher in south and central Georgia, strongly supporting states' rights. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1839 to 1840 as a Whig, but he later returned to the house in 1842 as a Van Buren Democrat. From 1843 to 1848, he served in the US Senate, and he attended the 1850 Nashville Convention, arguing for secession if slavery was restricted in any of the new territories being added to the country. He died in Macon in 1855.